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Fascinating! Scroll down to 1613, and then to 1620--check out how rapidly the export of tobacco took off! no wonder the owners of the Jamestown Joint Stock company kept shipping people over to Jamestown. . . there was huge profit to be had in cultivating tobacco! Notice also the countries that tried to prohibit tobacco in the early years of its availability in Europe and Asia. . .

detailed maps of Indian land cessions to 1899

Part II of Carlisle v Cornell Football game, 1902 (?)

Carlisle School Football Team: Big Game Against Cornell, 1902 (?)

from Carlisle INdustrial School Historical Society web site

Solid film about the emergence of off-reservation boarding school system after the Civil War

a bit too much talking head. . . some terrific photos

1. Why do American Indians have higher rates of alcoholism?
2. Why are American Indians allowed to have casinos on reservations?
3. How many reservations are left? Where are the most reservations?
4. How long were native Americans living in North America before European contact?
5. How bad is crime on American Indian reservations right now?
6. How many people were in North America prior to European contact?
7. Why didn't the Europeans die from germs brought over from the Americas?
8. How many native American tribes were there and where did they live?
9. Are there famous Native Americans today?
10. American Indian religions?
11. What was their culture like before contact?
12. Who qualifies as American Indian and who gets to decide?
13. What happened to the mound builders?
14. What type of leadership did/do American Indian tribes have?
15. Did any tribes try to assimilate to American culture and how did that work out for them?
16. How did the US government deal with American Indians over the course of its history?
17. Are American Indians taxed by the US?
18. Did the Europeans adopt/adapt any of the American Indian technologies?
19. Are American Indians who step off the reservation diplomatically immune?
20. If you're born on a reservation and you move off, do you have to apply for citizenship?
21. Do people living on reservations have voting rights?

What questions should we ask about American Indians?

1. What was American Indian lifestyle like before European contact and after?
2. How long were American Indians here before European contact?
3. How big was cultural difference between AI and Europeans early on?
4. Who killed whom first?
5. What is the American Indian population today? What was it prior to contact?
6. Are there still Indian reservations where they confined to live (or free to live)? What % of American Indians do live on the reservation?
7. Do American Indians experience discrimination still?
8. What areas had the biggest American Indian pop and what areas do now?
9. Are the indigenous people of South America related to North American Indians?
10. How do the cultures of different tribes vary?
11. How many tribes were there? Are there now?
12. How many generations were in each tribe: lifespan and age at childbearing
13. Did racial discrimination differ from tribe to tribe. . .
14. Did white people distinguish among tribes or did they lump them together as "Indians."
15. What are the different Native American religions?
16. Did Native Americans ever discriminate against white people -were they ever in a position to do so?
17. What were some of the cultural traditions in the different tribes?
18. How did resistance to western influence vary from tribe to tribe?
19. Did the Europeans ever try to understand the American Indians' culture and what were some compromises that Europeans made to American Indians?
20. How did the acceptance of western influence vary from tribe to tribe?
21. Do some American Indian organizations want to and try to regain their land?
22. Why weren't westerners dying from the diseases from the Americas?
23. Why was the technology so different between American Indians and Euros-eg Euros had alcohol, guns, steel, horses.
24. Who qualifies as "genuine" American Indian? Who gets to decide?
25. Is it due to discrimination that there aren't as many opportunities for jobs and education for American Indians?
26. What is the economic and educational outlook for AI? Why?

Great explanation of the origins of the culture wars in the 1960s and 1970s--and Pres. Obama's place in the culture wars

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